Tues Ride and Wed Bike-to-Work

Tues evening hill ride out to House Creek again, 5:30 at Sol/Flanders.

And don’t forget that Wed 24th is Colorado Bike to Work day! For those that have been waiting for a good excuse to get out on the road, this is it!

Tues Eve Ride, 6/16

Doug is away in the Gila NF for work the next couple weeks, so couldn’t get this ride on the calendar in time.

For those interested, we’ll leave Sol Cycles at 5:30pm, warm up to the RV park on 145, then back for some hills out to House Creek.

Tues Ride - House Creek

Weather permitting (!), this evening’s ride will leave at 5:30 from Sol Cycles, Dolores. Check the calendar for details…

Sat 6/6 and Sun 6/7 Rides

I added a ride to the calendar for this Saturday (June 6): Lizard Head Century, 6AM at Flanders Park in Dolores, (hope to be done by noon as I need to be on the river for the River Dog contest at Dolores River Days at 1:30). Honestly, I’m not expecting anyone to come out for this, but I wanted to use it as an example for the ride calendar. BUT, if anyone does want to join me, you know where and when. Alternatively, if you want to ride up 145 on Sat morning, I’ll see you on my way back down and we can ride back to Dolores together.

Sunday ride, 9AM as usual. Should be a nice day, avoiding the afternoon thunderstorms. I’ll be doing a recovery ride nice and easy. But others can go further or harder if they wish – we’ll see who wants to do what at Flanders Park.

Good weekend for a ride!
Michael

Ride Calendar

If you build it... I am writing to invite you to add rides to the Ciclistas del Rio ride calendar for people to join. It seems to me that one of the great bonuses to cycling is that it can be a social sport, but that takes communication. I am happy to moderate the calendar if you will just take the time to email me your ride information: date/time/meeting place/ride description.

Easy ride? Hard ride? Single speed? Race? Sprint intervals? Throw it out there and maybe someone will join you. If they don't, it didn't cost anything to add it to the calendar (except for the carpal tunnel from typing too much).

Send your rides to: dlamunyon@gmail.com
Please try to give me some advance notice, but I will do the best I can. This is going to be a busy month for me. The sooner the better.

I have just added a Tuesday night ride for June 9. Check the calendar.

DL

Kit Update

Clothing Order

Last chance to get your clothing orders in! We now have the minimum 10 pieces on order from members, so Doug and I will finalize and get the order to Champion Systems by the end of next week (May 1). Please e-mail me any additions or new orders before then. We will probably place another order sometime in the summer, or if we get orders for 10 pieces before then.

Sunday Ride, April 5

Well, it looks horrible out here right now, but the forecast for Sunday looks great – trust me it will all blow through. With the arrival of April, we’ll move the ride time to 10am. Meet at Flanders Park across from Sol Cycles in Dolores. Remember, all abilities welcome, we can split the ride and tailor it to whatever people feel like.

I’ve been out racing and riding in Grand Junction and Albuquerque these past couple weekends, so I’m looking forward the good ole’ Sunday ride!

Manzano Mountainair 200k Brevet

Just completed the 200k brevet above, along the eastern front of the Manzano Mtns south of Albuquerque. 129 miles, 7300' of climbing. Completed it in 8hrs 42mins for an avg speed of 14.9mph. That included 41 mins for 2 check points / support stations, and 1 flat. Actual riding time was 8:01 for an avg speed of 16.2mph. Knees are sore but legs feel great - gotta say that Hammer Perpetuem is a damn good endurance fuel. (You can get some at Sol Cycles for a 20% discount!).

Naturally, I won't be riding on Sunday - so have a good time!

Mad Cow - Day 2

Oh my god, the wind. 30mph steady w/ 40 gusts at the start, and it just got worse. The parking lot was a raging dust bowl when I finally left at 3pm.

Made the lead group of 10 on the first climb, stayed together for 2/3 of the race. Last climb with about 10 miles to go tore it all up - from there we were strung out in ones and twos. I was 5th at the top of the climb, and tried to catch 4th place, but blew up in the effort. Slipped to 8th through the last uphill rollers, then worked my ass off on the screaming, mildly down, wind-behind run in to the finish to catch the rider in front and nip him at the line for 7th.

Overall Cat 5 position was 4th, I think - they didn't post times for the crit or RR, so hard to tell. There's a chance I was 3rd, but I'll take 4th.
TT - 5th
Crit - 3rd
RR - 7th
Overall - 4th

Nice start to the season, time to start doing those hill repeats!